Re: Mass storage sizes (was: /dev/serial/by-id)

I agree it is important, may be a precision on the more general idea is helpful: "Communication of numbers between ordinary people generally happens in base 10." It turns out that the diversity of the notion of numerosity among *homo sapiens* is way far richer than the base-10. See https://wals.in

Re: System time/timezone, was Re: Maximum size .bash_aliases file

Well, The International BIPM writes the time with a colon: https://www.bipm.org/en/ Best Heriberto On Tuesday, June 25, 2024, David Wright wrote: > On Mon 24 Jun 2024 at 23:34:45 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: >> On 24/6/24 21:41, Erwan David wrote: >> > Le 24/06/2024 à 22:38, Curt a écrit : > >> >

Re: mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

ciate your further help. Who could have envisioned a community like this back in the 80's? This is great! Heriberto On Wed, Jun 19, 2024 at 9:04 AM Heriberto Avelino < heriberto.avel...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear all: > Is it possible to mount an external hard drive while running D

mounting external hard drive from rescue mode shell?

Dear all: Is it possible to mount an external hard drive while running Debian in rescue mode? Furthermore, the ultimate question is how could I copy folders from the computer's hard drive to the external one while in rescue mode? Many thanks!! Heriberto

Access and Back-up a Root locked laptop

Dear all My root account is locked. I experienced the well known issue "Debian authentication failure" at the log-in stage, i.e. it would not accept the root password. I accessed the BIOS to enter the safe mode, and discovered that my hard drive is almost full. I shall not attempt a fresh partition